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. TOKYO – More than 1,300 people tested positive for the coronavirus Thursday in Japan’s capital city, setting a new one-day record as 2020 slid into history, according to public broadcaster NHK. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government reported 1,337 newly infected people on New Year s Eve, according to NHK. The pandemic has set and crushed daily new-case records in Tokyo in December: 678 on Dec. 16, then 821 the following day and 949 the day after Christmas. Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike at news conference Wednesday said a “third wave of unprecedented size” is attacking the metro area, according to NHK. New Year’s festivities, she said, will not curb the virus’s spread. Koike urged metro residents to spend the night quietly at home and not with others at dinner or parties, NHK reported.
. TOKYO – The U.S. military in Japan and South Korea counted 39 new coronavirus cases over the weekend and Monday. U.S. Forces Korea reported the bulk of those, 22 new patients, all but one new arrivals to the Korean Peninsula since Nov. 29. In the capital city, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government added another 392 newly infected people to its pandemic total, according to public broadcaster NHK. The city on Saturday reported 736 people tested positive, its second highest daily measure just two days after the record, 822, according to metro government data. Monday counts are typically low in the city because most testing centers are closed on weekends, nevertheless Japanese media reported Monday’s total is the most ever counted on that day in Tokyo.